A leading designer, developer, manufacturer and supplier of Intelligent Broadband Networks, Integrated Photonics Technology (IPITEK), today that it has added the MSP-1GE product to its portfolio of Ethernet transport offerings. Service providers now have a cost-effective, intelligent demarcation point for their customers when delivering Metro Ethernet-based business services, with the MSP-1GE.

The MSP-1GE, equipped with an extensive suite of tools for remote network monitoring and maintenance, makes it possible for providers to reliably deliver on established service level agreements and avoid costly truck rolls. The new product includes tools that monitor physical wiring and power outages, and support loopback so service providers know their customer's circuit is up. Offering features such as ease of use, protection switching, flexible configuration, low latency, the ability to control traffic flows for “any rate” services, and extensive network monitoring in a compact 1 Gigabit Ethernet switch, the MSP-1GE is part of IPITEK's solution for end-to-end optical Ethernet transport of a full range of business services.

In addition to in-band management together with a command line and web-based interface, IPITEK's MSP-1GE product features a separate fast Metro Ethernet management port supporting out-of-band management. Furthermore, both fully redundant AC and DC power supplies are supported. The MSP-1GE is available in two models: a 16-port model available with 12 ports for copper and 4 slots for SFPs. Both models are compact enough for up to three units to share one rack unit space; and a 6-port model that includes 4 ports for standard copper wiring and 2 slots for industry standard small form-factor pluggable (SFP) modules for fiber connections.